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WASHINGTON - Authoritarian regimes around the world are using technology from a Silicon Valley firm for Internet surveillance, filtering and censorship, according to a...

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog -- but it is getting increasingly easy for someone to figure it out.

Mexico City - Hackers claimed a cyber attack on the Mexican defense ministry website on Wednesday, posting a manifesto from the Zapatista rebel group...

SEOUL - South Korean police on Wednesday said North Korea was behind a cyber-attack that paralysed operations at a major conservative newspaper last year....

MOSCOW - A 30-year-old Russian man who is suspected of organizing an hour-long hack attack on the Kremlin website in support of the political...

The European Union and the US agreed Friday to share more data on cross-border cybercriminals at the opening of a new hi-tech unit aimed...

TEHRAN - Iran has denied US media reports it carried out cyber attacks on US banks, the official IRNA news agency said Friday, quoting...

BRUSSELS - In a bid to seize the initiative from increasingly sophisticated online criminals, the European Union unveiled a new cybercrime center Wednesday. Criminal...

LONDON - The British military's dependence on information technology means it could be "fatally compromised" by a cyber-attack but the government seems unprepared for...

SEOUL - What is one of the world's most prominent advocates of Internet freedom doing in a country where unregulated access to information is...

WASHINGTON - A Chinese man pleaded guilty in a US federal court to pirating software that investigators said was worth more than $100 million,...

TOKYO - A computer hacker who taunted Japanese police for months with a string of vexing cyber riddles launched the campaign as part of...

BANGKOK - An Algerian computer hacker wanted by the FBI for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from American banks to fund a lavish lifestyle...

PHNOM PENH - About 80 Taiwanese and Chinese nationals have been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly extorting money from victims overseas over the telephone,...

WASHINGTON - John Brennan, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA, is a 25-year agency veteran who has passionately defended the US campaign...

BEIJING - A German reporter investigating a case of five children killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in southwest China said Monday his computer and...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday chose former senator Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary, praising his "willingness to speak his mind"...

Tehran - Iran is designing "intelligent software" that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media Sunday quoted...

ROME - Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI -- Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing...

NEW DELHI - Iran's top nuclear negotiator on Friday welcomed the return of leading world powers to talks over the country's disputed atomic program,...